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What is paracrine signalling?
hormone travels to target cell close to origin
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What is autocrine signalling?
hormone acts on same cell it was secreted by
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What is neuroendocrine signalling?
nerve cell releases hormone into blood where it travels to target cell
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4 features of peptide,protein and glycoprotein hormones and an example of 1
multiple chains, complex carbohydrate residues attatched, water soluble, hydrophillic e.g. insulin
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3 features of steroid hormones and example
Derived from cholesterol, lipid soluble, hydrophobic e.g. testosterone
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example of an amino acid derived hormone
thyroxine from tyrosine
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What is hormone synergism
The effect of a group of hormones on a receptor is bigger then the sum of effects of hormones acting individually on a cell
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